cleardumps
Use the cleardumps command to clear (or delete) the various dump directories on a specified node or node canister.
Parameters
- -prefix directory_or_file_filter
- (Required) Specifies the directory, files, or both to be cleared.
If a directory is specified, with no file filter, all relevant dump
or log files in that directory are cleared. You can use the following
directory arguments (filters):
- /dumps (clears all files in all subdirectories)
- /dumps/cimom
- /dumps/configs
- /dumps/easytier
- /dumps/elogs
- /dumps/feature
- /dumps/iostats
- /dumps/iotrace
- /dumps/mdisk
- /home/admin/update
- Note: The following rules apply to the use of wildcards when using the CLI:
- The wildcard character is an asterisk (*).
- The command can contain a maximum of one wildcard.
- With a wildcard, you must use double quotation marks (" ") around
the filter entry, such as in the following entry:
>cleardumps -prefix "/dumps/elogs/*.txt"
Description
. If no node is specified, the configuration node is cleared.
You can clear all the dumps directories by specifying /dumps as the directory variable.
You can clear all the files in a single directory by specifying one of the directory variables.
You
can use this command to clear specific files in a given directory
by specifying a directory or file name. You can use the wildcard character
as part of the file name.
Note: To preserve the configuration and
trace files, any files that match the following wildcard patterns
are not cleared:
- *svc.config*
- *.trc
- *.trc.old
An invocation example
cleardumps -prefix /dumps/configs
The resulting output:
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An invocation example
cleardumps -prefix /dumps/easytier node_2
The resulting output:
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